Enabling Others to Act

In class we read some quotes from Benjamin Zander, author of The Art of Possibility. He says: “The conductor of an orchestra does not make a sound…his true power derives from his ability to make other people powerful.” (P.68-69). I interpertted this quote as it is okay for a leader to share his spotlight with other members of his group because the leader alone did not do all the work it takes teamwork to get a task accomplished. A leader who has great leaderhip skills knows how to distribute the jobs amongst the other team memebers. A couple of my freinds and I are part of the culture club at our school and we usually sell t-shirts for many of the events to raise for charity. Many people that are part of the culture club usually come up with many ideas and designs for how the t-shirt should look but what usually ends up happening is people get into small disputes about them and the leader usually turns all the ideas and designs down. When time comes to turn in the designs everyone is scrambling to come up with something. If everyone would agree and if the leader would help everyone come together and come to a consensus the t-shirt design could have been better and more people would buy it then we would raise more money for the charity.